V. S. Naipaul Libros

Un camino en el mundo es la historia del viaje vital de un escritor hacia la comprensión, tanto de los sencillos materiales de la herencia -la lengua, el carácter, la historia familiar- como de las largas y entretejidas hebras de un pasado histórico profundamente complejo: «Cosas apenas recordadas, cosas que solo se liberan mediante el acto de escribir.» Lo que Naipaul escribe, lo que su liberación de recuerdos nos permite ver, es una serie de momentos desplegados e iluminados en la historia de los imperialismos español y británico en el Caribe. Cada uno de los episodios se ve a través de la lente clarificadora del narrador, que se reinventa a sí mismo para poder escapar de la propia historia que ansía narrar. Con aguda inteligencia, Naipaul ha creado un monumental relato de identidad recobrada y reconstruida.

A cultural history describing how folklore studies and the music industry helped to create a musical color line in the South, associating certain genres with particular racial and ethnic identities.

This is a further volume in the ongoing reissue of the backlist of V.S. Naipaul, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001.

The history of Trinidad begins with a delusion: the belief that somewhere nearby on the South American mainland lay El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold. In this extraordinary and often gripping book, V. S. Naipaul–himself a native of Trinidad–shows how that delusion drew a small island into the vortex of world events, making it the object of Spanish and English colonial designs and a mecca for treasure-seekers, slave-traders, and revolutionaries. Amid massacres and poisonings, plunder and multinational intrigue, two themes emerge: the grinding down of the Aborigines during the long rivalries of the El Dorado quest and, two hundred years later, the man-made horror of slavery. An accumulation of casual, awful detail takes us as close as we can get to day-to-day life in the slave colony, where, in spite of various titles of nobility, only an opportunistic, near-lawless community exists, always fearful of slave suicide or poison, of African sorcery and revolt. Naipaul tells this labyrinthine story with assurance, withering irony, and lively sympathy. The result is historical writing at its highest level.

A magnet to the poets, philosophers, teachers, troubadours and misfits who people the town of Port of Spain, Miguel Street is a place where tales of glory and debauchery vie with declarations of love and anger, where neighbourhood dramas are scrutinized and wisdom doled out to one and all.

Offers an account of the author's literary beginnings and growth and a narrative of a journey into the tribal and modern life of the Ivory Coast.

Owning a small portion of the Trinidad earth and a respectable house of his own is the dream that sustains Mohun Biswas through a life of frustration and despair after he marries into the domineering Tulsi family

Naipaul’s controversial account of his travels through the Islamic world, hailed by The New Republic as “the most notable work on contemporary Islam to have appeared in a very long time.”

A gripping masterpiece, hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.